(03-25-2019, 02:22 PM)Rebeltopia Wrote: Rarely do we propose multiple amendments to the same law in the same month, but we could add a .1 after the date if it happens.

...and? The only reason it's in the law is that, even if there are no amendments for the rest of the month, if someone else makes an amendment for the same law, then the person with the original amendment will have to go back and put a ".1" in their title. It's much easier if you just put a ".1" at the end even if it turns out to be useless. 

Other than that you've basically done the same as me. About the status of the amendment, this is just to stay in line with our current system and makes everything easier to see (If you are looking for an amendment title and it just says "A.LPA.0319.1" then you don't know if it has passed or failed, and if you already know if it passed or failed then it would make finding the amendment much easier. Also, when searching for current in discussion amendments, then clicking a topic and finding its already failed doesn't help when you had a really good idea to add.
 

(03-26-2019, 10:31 AM)North Prarie Wrote: So if a legislator would search AA6.9, but wanted it to only be from 2020, they could go to the 2020 subforum and search there for AA6.9.

That's a good idea, but you'd still have to put the month and year of when you posted the amendment in the code, so you can see when the amendment was actually proposed. Each thread doesn't actually say when it was made, just when the last person posted a message, so you'd have to go in each thread every time and look at the original message to see when the thread was posted.
 

(03-26-2019, 10:31 AM)North Prarie Wrote: The Llama Act (bill)-AB4.1

Too complicated. No, I'm serious. This literally just extends the current problem. You could put anything you want in the first bit, and that's the first letters the search algorithm searches for. The whole point of the code is that it is the first thing the algorithm searches for.

If you want to, you can do:
A.TLA.B.0419.Discussion The Llama Act.
A means assembly, TLA means the llama act, 0419 is the month and year, B means bill, and the stuff after that is free space. The most important things are "A" meaning assembly, "TLA" meaning "The Llama Act" and "B" meaning bill. There is nothing more important than that, so the format must be the same all the way through. The rest is less important and more to do with distinguishing search results once you find them. With this format, you can search for whatever assembly thing you want, whatever thing to do with the llama act, the bill for the llama act or an amendment to the llama act on this month.

Frankly, there isn't much confusion here, as long as you know the rules, which is quite simple for legislators:
A - Don't change this
TLA - Refer to this simple code guide on the law index page (which is where each law should get a code)
B - Replace this with A if you want to make a change to a law or B if you are suggesting a new law.
0419 - Replace the first two numbers with the month numbers and the second two with the year numbers
... - Replace the rest with whatever you want that might help people to see/understand your thread.

Seriously. Not much to it. The other codes are a little more advanced, but only older members who understand the code need to use it.
 

(03-26-2019, 12:00 PM)Rebeltopia Wrote: I got rid of the "A" for Assembly, since the posts will all be in the Assembly archives...

By the way, I chose to put "Assembly" in front of everything just to clarify easily that this is an assembly thread and not anything else, in case you were looking through a large number of subforums.

(Slightly silly proposal: Naming the code system "Amerion-Jebedian Coding"  )